[ODFW-News] ODFW stocks Oregon Food Bank with salmon fillets

[ODFW News]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2004

ODFW stocks Oregon Food Bank with salmon fillets
 
CLACKAMAS - A special holiday dinner with Oregon salmon as the
centerpiece will be a reality for many people needing assistance from
the Oregon Food Bank thanks to donations by the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife. 
 
ODFW has donated the equivalent of 146,000 servings of salmon to the
Oregon Food Bank this fall. The salmon is delivered as frozen fillets
ready for cooking.  
 
The Oregon Food Bank will distribute the fillets to every county in
Oregon through a statewide network of 20 regional food banks and
hundreds of hunger-relief agencies. The relief agencies will give the
fillets to people in need. 
 
Since 2001, ODFW has donated 301,000 pounds of salmon to the Oregon Food
Bank, which equates to about 1.2 million 4-ounce servings of fish. The
donated chinook salmon, coho salmon and steelhead are hatchery-reared
fish that have returned to Oregon's hatcheries from the ocean to
complete their life cycle. In the past several years, ODFW has had many
more fish return than necessary to produce the next generation of
hatchery fish. 
 
The fish donated are processed in accordance with federal food handling
guidelines by American/Canadian Fisheries, Inc., a company based in
Bellingham, Washington. American/Canadian provides all the staff and
equipment at no charge to ODFW and the food bank in exchange for the
opportunity to market by-products of the filleting process in
international markets. 
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